Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/October 17

October 17: International Urinal Day

• 107 A.D. - St Ignatius of Antioch thrown to wild animals in the Collosseum for urinating into the Baths of Caracella from the high board. This was the origin of the Golden Shaft from God miracle mentioned in the Gnostic Gospel of St Armitage.
• 1845 - Paris opens its first vespasienne (or street urinal) in Rue D'Ignatius.
• 1907 - The Great Rochester Brick Privvy Disaster claims 36 lives.
• 1921 - Ruben Sandringham discovers the relics of St Ignatius of Antioch after relieving himself against a sandstone outcrop in Haddenham, England.
• 1936 - The American Standard company launch the first female urinal at Pee-Fest in Clovis, New Mexico.
• 1965 - Yuri Gagarin Knall invents the YuriKnall while peeing in outer space.
• 1969 - Neil Armstrong proves conclusively that you can't miss with Armitage Shanks.
• 1982 - Sab McSib (Scotland, England) sets a world record, in Arbroath, for eating 34 yellow urinal cakes in two minutes. He had believed he was in a pineapple chunk eating competition.
• 2004 - The Unites States of Amerika obtains the rights to the YuriKnall along with the Mir Space Station, and relaunches it (the urinal, not the space station) as Urinal.
• 2007 - Sales of urinals touch 85,000,000 due to the box-office hit "Dude, Where's The Urinal".
• 2081 - The earth people celebrate the shipment of the first consignment of urinals to Stavromula Beta.